Lessons to be Learned

The novel, Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte motivated me to go for more constructive experiences in life. Through out the book there are many life lessons, and the one that has stood out is: someone needs to go through certain situations before becoming independent. Jane’s independence was a major factor in the novel. I relate to Jane in the fact that I too have had a rough childhood, and I wish to someday have a good life where I have become independent financially and mentally, just like Jane has done. I know I have to go through more experiences in life to become more prepared to fight for what I want.
Jane, since her childhood, she has suffered through many situatuions where she has had to face the world alone. One example, Jane lived in Gateshead Hall, and she wasn't happy at all. Her cousin, John Reed, was always teasing her, bullying he, and getting her into trouble. Jane, even called him "master Reed". Apart from the fact that Jane had to refer to her own cousin that was one year older than her "master" was just a sign that Jane couldn't possibly be have been happy living there. Jane had nothing in Gateshead Hall, she was lonesome and miserable. Mrs. Reed, Jane's aunt, had no campasion for her, she would chastise her even when she knew Jane was a victim of her son's bullying. Mrs. Reed was an awful person in Jane's childhood, she would lock her up in a room where Jane would be terrified to go into because of the fear of her uncle's spirit hunting that room. She knew that Jane was petrified to go in there and still she left her to her misery.
If I would have had that childhood, where the maid herself pitied me because in her eyes I was not even superior to her. Like how, Bessie, the house keeper of the Reeds, said, “No; you are less than a servant, for you do nothing for your keep.”. I would truly be unhappy if the maid would say that to me, why?, because I would think I'm surround by family and I shouldn't have to owe anything to my family, but in Jane's case she was taught to believe ,after her uncle's death, that she was worth nothing to the Reeds and she was just an object that was suppose to live pretending she didn't exist.
This harsh and limited childhood has molded Jane to be the character, I would one day wish to be like, like my classmate Richard said, “This bold statement has affected Jane throughout her life and it has shaped Jane's personality throughout the novel.”. (It can only hurt you if you let it) Richard agrees with the fact that what Bessie said was something that has scared Jane.
Jane hasn't just had bad encounters with live, when Jane grew up and found herself a job as a governess at Thorn field Hall, she began to experience something new. She was beginning to experience love,but not just brotherhood love but real love, love for someone who isn't really related to you. Jane was finally adapting herself in a life were there was a possibility in being happy with the person she loved, Mr. Rochester. Jane is a person who never thought of herself a person who would be able to experience happiness through love. Mr. Rochester made her think otherwise, when he proposed to her in the orchard, at first Jane was especticual about the intentions Mr. Rochester had but he later convinced her that he loved her too. And after the very romantic proposal she began a live a life where she thought she was going to be a happy at the side of her loved one. Everything was like a fairy tale, Jane seemed happy because she was marrying the man she truly loved and like Alejandra said, “Happiness is one of the things Jane never had as a child”(Happiness) because of the fact that Jane wasn't acustom to happiness she really didn't know what to expect from her “happy” marriage. Jane was bulnerable against things that might go wrong.
The fact that Jane hadn't experienced love or happiness made her more open to mistakes and posibilities for wrong things to happen. She wasn't prepared to be happy because she hadn't experienced enough to be truly happy. Yes, Jane had to overcome her hate for Mrs. Reed, the fact she had no one to lean on when she needed a shoulder, and now she has to experience the unexperience. She wasn't prepared for the news she received on the day of her wedding. She wasn't strong enough to face the fact that Mr. Mason had come to interrupt her wedding because Mr. Rochester was married with someone else and that the other woman not just was alive but also lived at Thornfield Hall. This came to Jane like a terrifying news. Like Alejandra said, “But she got carried away, she made her decision and now she’s suffering the consequences. She was thinking with her heart, but unfortunately she wasn’t thinking with her head.” (Happiness)Yes, I agree with Alejandra, Jane did get carried away but it wasn't her fault. Jane wasn't use to being treated with love or respect so she let her self go and the outcome came to be that she suffered more.
Jane, has suffered throughout her live, because she hadn't gone through the life lesson that she needs to be happy. At the end of the novel, Jane says, “"Reader, I married him" this line symbolises Jane's true happiness, but one thing I know for a fact is that Jane now is truly happy not because she married Mr. Rochester, her love, but also because she is now independent and with a family. Jane had to go through sadness, rejection, and even depression, for her to realize that she was now prepared for life. Yes, if not soon nor later, life would give chances to does who have learn and gone through certain things. Jane thought that she would never see herself happy but I always thought otherwise.